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The Manmade Clouds That Could Help Save the Great Barrier ReefInside a bold — and controversial — effort to cool the water around this beloved ecosystem. #Environment #Geoengineering 2025-07-25T02:01:32-0700 The New York Times Ferris Jabr ($) 5,000 words Rated 2025-07-29T20:06:02-0700
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Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors? - The Washington PostRated 2025-07-29T05:53:20-0700
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‘The Interview’: Robert Reich Thinks the Baby Boomers Blew ItThe former U.S. Labor Secretary on how complacency and corporate ties created a “bully in chief.” #Barack Obama #Bill Clinton #College #Donald Trump #US Politics 2025-07-26T02:15:06-0700 The New York Times David Marchese ($) 4,000 words Rated 2025-07-27T14:04:06-0700
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When We Get KomootedFollowing the sale of Komoot to private equity, Josh Meissner explores the broken relationship between corporate capital and our communities... #Travel 2025-07-25T04:20:02-0700 BIKEPACKING.com Josh Meissner 4,000 words Rated 2025-07-27T11:14:31-0700
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Upsides and Downsidescalv.info 1,000 words Rated 2025-07-26T13:32:32-0700
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Developing our position on AI - BlogThis post is about how we've tried to develop a position on AI in the context of learning and growth at RC. #New York City #programming Recurse Center 4,000 words Rated 2025-07-26T08:32:19-0700
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Revisiting MoneyballThe book was published in 2003, and the movie was released in 2011. It feels silly to rehash, except the whole thing fascinates fans two decades later. Why? On the one hand, it is loved because it… 2025-07-24T01:24:34-0700 djpardis.medium.com Pardis Noorzad 3,000 words Rated 2025-07-24T20:54:02-0700
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Scarcity, Inventory, and Inequity: A Deep Dive into Airline Fare BucketsAirline pricing may seem mystifying, but behind every airfare is a complex system of fare buckets and inventory controls. Airlines don't just sell seats - they manage a dynamic inventory of fares, divided into booking classes (fare buckets) with different prices and rules. For the technically curious, understanding how fare buckets work reveals the "source code" of airline revenue management. This report delves into the hierarchy of booking classes, how airlines update seat... 2025-07-21T12:31:07-0700 JetBack 5,000 words Rated 2025-07-24T17:43:47-0700
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Surprising Science: How Electric Cars Quietly Transform Urban Air"It’s not just the tailpipe y’all," joked one Electrek commenter, alluding to the black discolorations on alloy wheels visible proof of a less infamous city pollutant: brake dust. For decades, exhaust emissions have been the focus of city-air cleaning initiatives, but a new wave of research indicates that the real story goes far beyond the… 2025-07-22T03:58:36-0700 Modern Engineering Marvels 1,000 words Rated 2025-07-23T20:28:50-0700
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So You Think You've Awoken ChatGPT — LessWrongWritten in an attempt to fulfill @Raemon's request. … 2025-07-10T18:01:26-0700 lesswrong.com JustisMills 10,000 words Rated 2025-07-23T20:24:59-0700
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Laurence Tratt: Comparing the Glove80 and Maltron keyboardstratt.net 3,000 words Rated 2025-07-22T19:25:49-0700
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How Jane Jacobs got Americans stuckYoni Appelbaum on the real villians behind our housing and mobility problems 2025-07-09T09:30:24-0700 Riskgaming by Lux Capital Danny Crichton 5,000 words Rated 2025-07-21T17:13:51-0700
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The Little Food Lab Fueling the Big Protein BoomAnthony Flynn and his family ran a small health snack company in California. Then came protein bar mania. #Food & drink 2025-07-21T02:00:13-0700 The New York Times Mattie Kahn, Jake Michaels ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-07-21T06:47:35-0700
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He Claims He’s the ‘Sports Betting King.’ What Are the Odds?Mazi VS has become a major influencer by flaunting his expensive lifestyle and his big-winning wagers. Other gamblers say he can’t be what he seems. #College Basketball #Fraud #Gambling #Social Media 2025-07-13T02:00:59-0700 The New York Times Devin Gordon ($) 5,000 words Rated 2025-07-20T22:49:32-0700
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What My Mother Didn't Talk AboutMy mother and I were very close, but when she died last year there was still so much I didn’t know about her. #Cancer #Death #Illness #Parents 2020-07-25T08:11:26-0700 BuzzFeed News Karolina Waclawiak 4,000 words Rated 2025-07-20T22:03:44-0700
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New colors without shooting lasers into your eyesCan optical illusions take you outside the human color gamut? 2025-07-16T17:00:00-0700 DYNOMIGHT dynomight 2,000 words Rated 2025-07-20T15:25:27-0700
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The Great Flood of Adequate SoftwareSomewhere someone is still evaluating WinRAR 2025-07-12T06:17:31-0700 Works on My Machine Scott Werner 2,000 words Rated 2025-07-19T19:37:57-0700
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Death by AIOne man's struggle with his mortality. 2025-07-18T05:32:47-0700 Dave Barry’s Substack Dave Barry 1,000 words Rated 2025-07-19T19:04:56-0700
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Local LLMs versus offline WikipediaHow do the sizes of local LLMs compare to the size of offline Wikipedia downloads? 2025-07-18T17:00:00-0700 evanhahn.com 500 words Rated 2025-07-19T18:40:50-0700
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My 9-week unprocessed food self-experimentWhat I really want to know is: What benefit would I get from making my diet better? 2025-07-10T09:03:03-0700 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 2,000 words Rated 2025-07-19T12:14:34-0700
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The beauty entrepreneur who made the Jheri curl a sensationThe hairstyle originally involved an expensive trip to a salon. Then Comer Cottrell introduced the Curly Kit during the 1980s recession. 2025-07-11T07:51:42-0700 The Hustle Kelli María Korducki 2,000 words Rated 2025-07-16T12:10:55-0700
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Reflections on OpenAIcalv.info 4,000 words Rated 2025-07-15T20:03:17-0700
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Let Your Kid Climb That TreeIt could actually make them safer. 2025-07-12T05:00:00-0700 The Atlantic Henry Abbott ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-07-14T19:22:44-0700
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How I build software quicklyKnow how good your code needs to be for the task at hand. Start with a rough draft. Try to soften requirements if you can. Don't get distracted. Make small changes. Practice specific skills. 2025-07-07T17:00:00-0700 evanhahn.com 2,000 words Rated 2025-07-14T10:04:29-0700
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no days offA celebration of consistency, discipline, and the pursuit of movement #Running no days off 1,000 words Rated 2025-07-14T08:04:27-0700
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Inside SON: Schmidt’s Original Dynamo Hubs from GermanyJosh Meissner recently rode down to visit the engineers at Schmidt Maschinenbau in Tübingen, Germany, who created the legendary SON dynamo hub... #Travel 2022-11-15T04:22:05-0800 BIKEPACKING.com Josh Meissner 3,000 words Rated 2025-07-13T07:32:03-0700
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Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price | Jeff Geerlingjeffgeerling.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-07-12T08:03:19-0700
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Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer ProductivityWe conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower. 2025-07-10T05:00:00-0700 metr.org METR 2,000 words Rated 2025-07-11T21:30:43-0700
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The ChompSaw: A Benchtop Power Tool That's Safe for Kids to UseOf all freestanding power tools, perhaps the jigsaw or scrollsaw would be the most fun for kids to use, as they allow freeform cuts. They're also pretty darn dangerous, with the jigsaw being powerful enough to remove fingers. A much safer way to introduce kids to power tools is this Core77 1,000 words Rated 2025-07-10T21:44:39-0700
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DCHP-3Rated 2025-07-09T23:02:04-0700
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Steve Blank Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the FutureHow did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Every disruptive technology since the fire and the wheel have forced leaders to adapt or die. This post tells the story of what happened when 4,000 companies faced a disruptive technology and why only one survived. In the early 20th… 2025-07-08T06:00:00-0700 Steve Blank 3,000 words Rated 2025-07-08T19:33:14-0700
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‘Dilbert’ cartoon creator once questioned the number of Jews killed in the HolocaustDilbert cartoon creator Scott Adams once questioned the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust in a now-deleted blog post. 2023-03-03T13:20:22-0800 The Forward 1,000 words Rated 2025-07-08T18:45:53-0700
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Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it existsRated 2025-07-07T14:34:47-0700
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College English majors can't readThey have one job and they can't do it 2025-05-20T06:15:40-0700 Kitten 3,000 words Rated 2025-07-04T16:03:18-0700
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Your Review: SchoolFinalist #2 in the Review Contest 2025-07-04T06:01:37-0700 astralcodexten.com Astral Codex Ten 8,000 words Rated 2025-07-04T15:49:39-0700
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hydrogen jukeboxes: on the crammed poetics of "creative writing" LLMshydrogen jukeboxes: on the crammed poetics of “creative writing” LLMsThis is a follow-up to my earlier brief rant about the new, unreleased OpenAI model that’s supposed “good at creative writing.” It... 2025-03-14T17:18:08-0700 nostalgebraist.tumblr.com nostalgebraist 200 words Rated 2025-07-03T20:58:47-0700
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Tools: Code Is All You NeedThe solution to agentic flows was code all along. 2025-07-03T00:00:00-0700 Armin Ronacher 2,000 words Rated 2025-07-03T16:56:26-0700
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COROS Confirms Substantial Watch Security Vulnerablity: Says Fixes Are ComingA German IT security firm has published a list of 8 different security bugs found in all COROS watches that give essentially full access to not only the user's watch, but also their COROS account. This includes everything from 2025-06-30T03:20:40-0700 DC Rainmaker 5,000 words Rated 2025-07-03T13:40:27-0700
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Cloudflare Introduces Blocking of A.I. Scrapers By DefaultRated 2025-07-02T07:22:17-0700
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Toxic US Landfills: Overheating Trash Sites Pose Health RisksRated 2025-07-01T20:56:50-0700
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The cheapest cars aren't cheap anymoremedia.hubspot.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-06-30T07:55:51-0700
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Your Review: Alpha School... 2025-06-27T04:49:52-0700 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 60,000 words Rated 2025-06-29T20:55:47-0700
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Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather datatext.npr.org 2,000 words Rated 2025-06-29T20:19:29-0700
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Sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back ‘decades’Scientists left scrambling amid hurricane season after irreplaceable program is slotted to be shuttered 2025-06-28T07:27:10-0700 The Guardian Eric Holthaus 2,000 words Rated 2025-06-29T20:00:33-0700
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Woman in custody after car hits bicyclist on closed OpenStreetsPGH course in North Point BreezePolice took a woman into custody after witnesses said a car drove through a barricade and onto streets that had been closed for OpenStreetsPGH, striking at least one person on a bicycle. 2025-06-29T05:51:30-0700 WESA Rachel McDevitt, Julia Maruca 1,000 words Rated 2025-06-29T16:13:35-0700
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The Claude Bliss Attractor... 2025-06-12T18:33:35-0700 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 25,000 words Rated 2025-06-29T07:18:53-0700
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The effect of noise on sleepUsing Apple Watch Empirical Health 500 words Rated 2025-06-27T07:24:30-0700
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Lovable makes $75m in 7 months—but is it nailing pricing?The current (and future) monetization strategies of "Shopify for SaaS" 2025-06-25T06:57:24-0700 The Bill, Please Finn 3,000 words Rated 2025-06-25T21:14:13-0700
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What Problems to Solve - By Richard Feynmangenius.cat-v.org 1,000 words Rated 2025-06-25T20:18:02-0700
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The NO FAKES Act Has Changed – and It’s So Much WorseA bill purporting to target the issue of misinformation and defamation caused by generative AI has mutated into something that could change the internet forever, harming speech and innovation from here on out.The Nurture Originals, Foster Art and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act aims to... 2025-06-23T12:39:42-0700 Electronic Frontier Foundation Katharine Trendacosta and Corynne McSherry 1,000 words Rated 2025-06-24T17:56:28-0700
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